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I LIKE TO LISTEN TO THE RADIO WAVES AROUND AND OUTSIDE THE GLOBE |
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THE „LITTLE“ CW click on and listen
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LW MW 120 m 90 m 75 m 60 m 49 m 41 m 31 m 25 m 22 m 19 m 16 m 15 m 13 m 11 m |
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150 khz 525 khz 2300 khz 3200 khz 3900 khz 4750 khz 5900 khz 7100 khz 9400 khz 11600 khz 13570 khz 15100 khz 17480 khz 18900 khz 21450 khz 25670 khz |
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285 khz 1605 khz 2495 khz 3400 khz 4000 khz 5060 khz 6200 khz 7350 khz 9900 khz 12100 khz 13870 khz 15800 khz 17900 khz 19020 khz 21850 khz 26100 khz |
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THE BAND PLAN FROM THE BROADCASTING RADIO STATIONS |
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LW 160 m 80 m 40 m 30 m 20 m 17 m 15 m 12 m 10 m
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135,7 khz 1810 khz 3500 khz 7000 khz 10100 khz 14000 khz 18068 khz 21000 khz 24890 khz 28000 khz
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137,8 khz 1950 khz 3800 khz 7200 khz 10150 khz 14350 khz 18168 khz 21450 khz 24990 khz 29700 khz
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THE BAND PLAN FROM THE AMATEUR RADIO STATIONs ON THE SHORTWAVE |
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IARU REGION 1 For more info, please, click here |
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SWL is the short form from shortwavelistener = radio listener
SHORT INFO ABOUT THE HOBBY “SWL”
You can use each radio what you have, by the tuner you need only a LW (long wave), MW (medium wave), SW (shortwave) part. Or you have an world receiver. But for your first steps you can need a simple cheap world receiver. Because if you only will look what is SWL you can take this cheap world receiver. And later if you really want this hobby you will buy you a better receiver, world receiver, communication receiver and a outdoor antenna, but by this you can built a lot of by your own and so you save a lot of money for a better receiver than.
On long wave and medium wave you can hear radio stations from about 150 – 250 km far away your home. But at the evening and the night you can hear it from a other continent. On shortwave is it dependent from the frequency and from the daylight or night. I will say it shortly if it is outside bright or dark. You can hear stations from your country or neighbour country or from a other continent or from the other side of the world.
At the daylight the best bands are: 25 m, 22 m, 19 m, 16 m.
At the evening and night the best bands are: 60 m, 49 m, 41 m, 31 m.
By good conditions (propagation) you can use to each times following bands: 25 m , 22 m, 19 m, for receiving radio stations from far away your home. DX = receiving signals from far away your home.
The scale on your radio shows you the bands and the frequency. By the most radios you can switch between the bands and then you can tune the frequency from the beginning to the end of the band.
Some radios, and than the communication receivers have a scale for the signal what you receive = S-Meter – signal strength. Meted it will be in microvolt and your S-Meter shows you in dB.
The reception is dependent from some factors:
Radio Location (outdoor, indoor) Area City (a lot of electronic smog) or on the land (not so much electronic smog) Geomagnetic field Sun Used frequency Daylight or Night
Geomagnetic field:
The geomagnetic field can be quiet (good for listening) unsettled (not good for listening)
Sun spot numbers:
There is a cycle = duration 11 Years.
When the sun have many sun spot numbers = SSN it is the Maximum (good for listening) When the sun have less sun spot numbers = SSN it is the Minimum (not good for listening)
This are enough information for the beginning. When you are really interested in the hobby you get more and more information.
The best information you get it from the link “condx” on my homepage. Here you become the current info.
Now a important thing in the hobby is all times are adjust by the Universal coordinated Time = UTC. The best it is you look that you have a old clock what you do not need and you adjust it to the UTC. So you have always a clock with the UTC. All radio stations need the UTC. And it is important for you when you plan a radio calendar or to make a entry in your logbook.
A logbook is also very important for the hobby, because here you can make all entries what you hear. Here follows now the parameters for the logbook. Name of the radio station, date, time (UTC), frequency, SINPO, program details, remarks to the program.
You need this parameters if you will later see what you have hear or for an reception report that you become a QSL-CARD. But this is coming later.
By the program details: Do not write only – news, weather, music, end. Better you right that you hear: News: here you write what you hear by the news, write a summary. Write also who was the broadcaster. By the music write who is the singer and the name of the song. And write the start and end time. All parameters what you write in your logbook, you can write it now in your reception report.
If you want to have a QSL-CARD from a amteur radio station you need following parameters for your reception report:
· Callsign · Name of the operator · Date · Time in UTC · Frequency in khz · Meterband · Modulation (SSB, CW,….) · RST (I describe it later) · The call of the remote station · RST from the remote station
RST description
R = Radio = readability
R 1 = not readably R 2 = occasionally readably R 3 = with difficulty readably R 4 = readably R 5 = well readably
S = Signal = signal strength
S 1 = hardly audibly S 2 = very weakly audibly S 3 = weakly audibly S 4 = sufficiently audibly S 5 = rather well audibly S 6 = well audibly S 7 = moderately strongly audibly S 8 = strongly audibly S 9 = extremely strongly audibly
T = Tone = tone quality (this parameter only by CW)
T 1 = pure alternating current clay/tone up to 50 cycles per second T 2 = pure alternating current clay/tone up to 150 cycles per second T 3 = easily sounding to Netwechselstromton, T 4 = parallel alternating current badly filtered T 5 = musical modulated clay/tone T 6 = trill clay/tone T 7 = instable direct current clay/tone, T 8 = sturdy direct current clay/tone with something humming modulation T 9 = pure direct current clay/tone
Now I will describe you the SINPO:
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With regard to the links: I am not responsible for the contents of the external web pages |
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@ by SWL-CHMY/Christian Mayer 2006-2010 |
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QSL-Card:
When you send a reception report to a radio station you become a QSL-Card back. The radio station sent it as conformation for your reception report. With your reception report the radio station can see how you do can receive the signal in your area. And SWL´s collect the QSL-card.
Please, when you send a reception report to a radio station, the experience shows, its better when you send enclosed a letter.
In the letter you tell about something about you, your home, your hobby, about the radio,,,….
Then the chance is better to get a QSL-card. And please send enclosed and IRC = International reply coupon. With the IRC the radio station can pay the return postage. By the great radio stations you must not send it.
When you become a QSL-card back. Please write back to the radio station, send a card from your home and say many thanks for the QSL-card. The people who work by the radio stations are also then happy if they have make you happy, and so they become a feedback.
In our time in the “internettime” you also can send an reception report via email. Sometimes you become then an electronic QSL-card via email back.
With short words I have describe the hobby SWL. With the time you become more and more info in all category groups of the hobby. The radio have an great activity field, and so it is a hobby for the whole life and this is the greatly by the hobby.
I wish you always a clear frequency with no noise and to listen to a lot of radio stations from all around the world.
All the best and good luck, and the most important thing in life a lot of health to you and your family.
With friendly greetings
Christian Mayer (SWL-CHMY)
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S signal strength |
I Interference |
N atmospheric noise |
P fading |
O overall valuations |
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5 |
excellent |
none |
none |
none |
excellent |
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4 |
good |
low |
low |
low |
good
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3 |
middle |
middle |
middle |
middle |
middle |
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2 |
poor |
strong |
strong |
strong |
poor
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1 |
weak |
very strong |
very strong |
very strong |
weak
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